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Top30 Favorite Film Discoveries of 2017

Happy new year, everyone! Here’s to a 2018 with more writing and more movies. Looking back at my movie-watching last year, I don’t think I watched too many films from the West, so this list seems incredibly unbalanced.

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Man of Tai Chi (2013)

When Master Yang’s temple is selected to be torn down because it’s so old, Tiger accepts a man’s fighting offer for cash to repair the place, but as he fights, he begins losing his humanity in Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut.

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Triad Election

We all know power corrupts, so when Brother Lam Lok’s two-year term as the Wo Shing Wo chairman is up — without chances of re-election — he begins shuffling his influences to bend the rules to his favor, even if it’s by using his Brothers.

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Election (2005)

Wo Shing Wo members, Lam Lok and Big D, face off for the chance to be the newest chairman. However, before that, one of them must retrieve the Dragon Head Baton. All of a sudden it’s a game of mouse against mouse, when brothers of the same society fight one another for the chance at power.